GOODS WAGON BREAKS LOOSE-TWELVE KILLED.

Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 10

GOODS WAGON BREAKS LOOSE-TWELVE KILLED.

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PARIS. February 9.—A goods wagon of a road tramway broke loose near Tlnonville. and violently e-oltided with a passenger tram at a level crossing. Twelve were killed and thirty-four were injured. The driver allegedly decampd. —Press Association. TE AROHA MOUNTAIN FIRE. The lire on Te Aroha Mountain laid exhausted itself by midnight, thought at one time there . was a circle of Haute six 'miles, in circumference, and every gully and mountain recess was a raging infermn This morning the mountain appeared as a charred peak, ami numerous smoking trunks of frees tire the grim remnants oi one of Nature's most beautiful collections of trees and shrnhs. that had taken scores of years to grow. When the (ire ascended on the peak (exceeding 3,oooiti it gradually died out, having apparently absorbed all the lighter growth during its (juick transit across the mountain. — Auckland Associate n message. THE HICKMAN MURDER. NEW YORK, February i).~News from Los Angeles states that the jury has retired to consider the Hickman case. It must return two separate verdicts—one on Hickman's sanity or insanity at the time of kidnapping; the other on his condition at the time of tho murder. --Press Association. THE SHARE MARKET* Sale reported this afternoon: —Bank of New 7 Zealand, £2 19s.'